A two-faced star just helped weigh an extra-massive pulsar. The star takes about four hours to orbit its companion, a fast-spinning stellar corpse called a pulsar that’s about 10,000 light-years from ...

The fast-spinning cores of dead stars, pulsars, appear to emit radio signals not only from their poles but also from their ...

Using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), Chinese astronomers have inspected two nearby ...

Astronomers have witnessed a never-seen-before event in observations by ESA’s XMM-Newton spacecraft – a collision between a pulsar and a ring of gas around a neighbouring star. The rare passage, which ...

An international group of scientists and a massive observing campaign may have uncovered the reason behind a distant pulsar’s flashy behavior. This pulsar, dubbed PSR J1023+0038, has two different ...

A perplexing fast-spinning star just might be the "missing link" in a long-standing pulsar mystery, scientists say. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and ...

Watch out, because this thing eats entire stellar masses: a rapidly rotating collapsed star known as a pulsar is making a meal out of its neighboring star, nearly devouring it whole. That engorging ...

The Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) has detected PeV (1015 eV) gamma-ray emission from a pulsar wind nebula powered by PSR J1849-0001 in the constellation Aquila, marking the ...

The article recounts Jocelyn Bell Burnell's 1967 discovery of highly regular radio signals, initially termed "scruff" and briefly "LGM-1," which led to the identification of pulsars as rapidly ...

Astronomers have added a new species to the neutron star zoo, showcasing the wide diversity among the compact magnetic remains of dead, once-massive stars. While it’s an oddball, some of this newfound ...

Like anthropologists piecing together the human family tree, astronomers have found that a misfit “skeleton” of a star may link two different kinds of stellar remains. The mysterious object, called ...